Its stories, on the whole, are not politically or stylistically progressive, but it’s accumulated, like, forty thousand stories over the last twenty-five years, so it’s definitely doing something that’s compelling for a lot of people. If you were trying to figure out what was going on with your gender in the late nineties and early aughts, you tended to end up there.
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And if you’re hungry for that post-post-vaporwave retro “2002 internet” aesthetic, great news: it hasn’t updated its design since it came online in 1998.įictionmania is a free archive of user-contributed stories on the theme of gender change. It wasn’t until the night after that reading, lying awake and beating myself up for not having a good answer, that I thought of a pretty good one. We are so steeped in for-profit social media today that it’s hard to remember anything else. I struggled to come up with a decent answer. So instead of celebrating myself, I want to use this opportunity to say thanks, and to think through some of the influences and experiences that shaped the novel.Īt one point in Nevada, Maria mentions the “stupid 2002 internet.” At a Q&A following a reading on the 2013 book release tour, I was asked what that meant. At the very least, this idea occludes the work other people had done that made Nevada possible. People have called Nevada “ground zero for modern trans literature,” and while I get that-before it was published, I don’t think I’d read a novel with a trans character who I didn’t at least sort of hate-I don’t really feel like a genius visionary who invented literature centering marginalized experiences. It’s been out of print for a few years, but in June, Farrar, Straus and Giroux will bring it back into print. You may or may not have heard of it, but if there are trans people in your life who are readers, they probably have. Photo courtesy of the author.Īlmost ten years ago, I published a novel called Nevada with a small press called Topside that doesn’t exist anymore. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Imogen Binnie at Camp Trans in 2008. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls.
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